Woodland Hills

Imagine a school built around your way of learning, your lifestyle and your goals…

A place where you fit in, you can excel, create lasting friendships and make your dreams come true. A school that feels uniquely your own, like family, like home. Teachers that listen to you and curtail lesson plans to the way you learn best, at a pace that makes you successful. A school that works with your schedule, around your activities, at times that are most conducive for you to learn at your best. A school that is built for you and around you, that’s Halstrom Academy.

At Halstrom, our middle school and high school students are regular kids and each student is unique in their own way. Some struggle with academia, learning challenges or social anxiety, while some are athletes and actors who find the flexible scheduling options beneficial, and some are wanting accelerated learning that they are not finding in the traditional classroom… but all value and benefit from the 1:1 instruction so they can learn to their capacity and pace.

Commons Aren’t So Common

The campus common area includes a wall painted with “Idea paint” where students can use markers to be creative, think visually, and share ideas with one another. You don’t find that in most public or private schools.

Because the majority of student work is done outside the classroom, but not at home, Halstrom Academy provides designated spaces that students can call their own. “The Study” offers a relaxingatmosphere to socialize with friends, watch TV, play music and work on group projects. It’s a perfect place for those who desire a sense of community. “The Quiet Study” provides workstations and a computer lab to finish assignments and study for tests. The Quiet Study is staffed with a tutor to help students master the content outside of the classroom. This frees the student up from loads of homework and parents don’t have to struggle with the often burdensome and confusing studies sent home. At our private 1:1 instructional campus we have a leadership club, yearbook club, numerous field trips and volunteer opportunities where our students enjoy school-life outside of the classroom.

Why Halstrom Works?

1:1 Instruction
Classrooms consist of only one student and one teacher. At Halstrom you will benefit from an alternative quality education and personalized one-to-one instruction that is tailored to your personal needs, educational goals and learning styles. It is important that each student has content mastery and that you learn at your pace. This allows for a personalized education for each student.

Flexible Scheduling
At Halstrom, our middle school and high school programs offer you the unique opportunity for you to choose the class times, course load, and pace that best accommodate your needs inside and outside of school. This allows our students to achieve success both inside and outside the classroom and schedule around their optimum learning times.

Caring Environment
Halstrom’s small environment and supportive community gives you a place where you feel safe and are able to discover the power of your own potential. Each student is unique and Halstrom will work with each student to achieve success.

Come join us at our Halstrom Academy Open House! Take a campus tour, get your questions answered by the Campus...Read More

Halstrom Academy Profiles - Woodland Hills

Jamie

Halstrom Student

Jamie, age 14, is a competitive snowboarder from Los Angeles who benefits from Halstrom’s flexible schooling and the ability to accelerate his schedule. He started his freshman year at Halstrom Academy in June 2013, and finished it in November. He takes winters off to live in Colorado and train with... Read More

Erika Steiger

Campus Director

Erika Steiger is the Campus Director for Halstrom Academy, Woodland Hills Campus. After earning a B.A. in Anthropology at Harvard University, Erika Steiger joined Teach For America and taught in rural Louisiana, where she learned just how challenging teaching is and developed an enormous respect for educators.
Since then she has... Read More